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Mud pies and Mucking about

Beautiful Life — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:16:58 +0000

Autumn is my favourite time of year and not just because it starts with my birthday! September always brings lots of changes and this year a big change as I waved my baby off to school, very sad but also very exciting as ‘Beautiful Life’ picks up momentum and I have a very busy season ahead. The trees are starting to change colour and we have Bonfire night and Christmas to look forward to, brilliant!!

Our garden looks like a jungle after a full summer of weddings it’s been a bit neglected! I decided that this weekend we were going to sort it out. Gardening quickly turned into mucking about, climbing trees, harassing insects and of course mud pie mixing (no eating this time thankfully!) Kids are just so imaginative and creative, they make games out of anything and good games make great images. I couldn’t resist snapping a few pics, it was just so much fun. The garden is still a jungle but we had a great time!

My youngest daughter is a muck magnet and at her happiest in the garden talking to the bugs!

We did do a bit of gardening and started to clear out all the pots, but work quickly turned into bean smiles and green tomato eyes!

We’ve not long got back from our summer holiday where Charis spent most of her time digging holes and building sand castles. But who needs sand when you have old plant pots and mud? She gave the pot the ‘special tap’ and sure enough a sort of sand castle emerged. She was very pleased with it!

Spot the catapillar

Autumn portrait sessions are becoming really popular as the photo’s make great presents for Christmas. The colours make awesome backdrops, those loads of free fun to be had, picking blackberries and hunting for conkers. For kids there are fab knits (the wooly kind) and loads of hats out there. Deadlines for Christmas will be posted soon.

Troublesome twosome!

Beautiful Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:09:33 +0000

My girls will never have their pictures taken together but with a couple of bribes I managed some lovely shots at the weekend.

Yes I am obsessed with tea parties!

Aliens among us!

Beautiful Life — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:32:05 +0000

Every now and again (quite often actually!) I get thoroughly bored with the domestic stuff and flip out for a while, then its back down to earth because the cleaning won’t do itself, pity!

I know I’m mad!

A walk by the Canal

Beautiful Life — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:13:47 +0000

Went on a great walk around the canals in Derby, took my camera to try and get some shots of the girls and here they are.

There was some great graffiti on the walls so I decided to try and get my youngest to do her moody face for a photo, here’s the result, well worth a whole bag of wine gums don’t you think?!

The Deep

Beautiful Life — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:51:45 +0000

It was my dads 60th recently so we all went to visit him at the seaside. The kids had a great time on the beach riding on donkeys and playing in the sea.

Who has the best mardy face on the whole of Scarborough beach? Its my Nephew Luke!!

We also visited ‘The Deep’ in Hull and managed to get all the way round without My daughter going for a swim! We spent ages watching the jelly fish they were amazing.

Favourite images of the day